This Friday's featured artist is Sarah Virginia Uhl and her awesome series of Story Maps!

Sarah writes:

​"I am dedicated to making art that plays a role in the protection of public lands, clean water or climate issues.
​I help brands and organizations communicate and connect through art, visual storytelling and an infectious love for the world and all its beauty.

I love mountains and feel most alive when I'm in them.  I started bringing my paints along a few years ago and haven't stopped."

Learn more about Sarah Uhl and see all of her Story Maps on her website at http://sarahuhl.com!

Have a great weekend!

I am so excited to be teaching in Hacking The Color Wheel that I've been posting peeks on Instagram of my process preparing! It has been a blast getting ready for class – filming and creating a PDF to share! I can't think of a better way to start my summer than on this creative, collaborative journey!

Class starts next week, and I can hardly wait!
I hope you join us for the color FUN!
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CLICK HERE for more information about Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!

​This Friday’s featured artist is Jackie Westerlund, a Minnesota artist and metal-smith. She makes topographic maps in metal that are amazing! Each layer is hand sewn out of sheet metal and fused together!

​Learn more about Jackie Westerlund and her jewelry company West Grove Design on her website at westgrovedesign.com!

​Have a great weekend!

I've combined Around the World Latitude, Just Plane Fun, Michelle Ward's X Rows stencil, Mary Beth Shaw's Greek Key stencil, and Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch's String stencil!

I also stenciled words from my Let's Go 2 stencil with Jet Black Ranger Archival ink pad and fingertip sponge daubers. Then I remove the stencil and connect the bridges with my Sakura black Identi-Pen.

Below are detailed photos of my pages:

This Friday's featured artist is Jess Weems and her Cartographic Stories paintings! I love her colors, textures and lyrical lines!

She writes:
​I work in encaustic - hot wax - to create three-dimensional interpretations of the topography of a landscape and then layer oil paint into and onto the wax. Combining these two mediums allows me to ask the viewer to both place themselves in a representational map and to consider the conversation between the land and humankind.
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Traditionally, I was first educated to be an agricultural economist and then a science teacher. After graduate school, I came back around to art through reading artist blogs, then attending art workshops, and finally dedicating myself to learning a few mediums through independent teachers around the country. I began teaching art workshops and showing my work during an artist residency in Spain in 2012.

Learn more about Jess Weems and her Cartographic Stories on her website at www.jessweems.com!

Have a great weekend!

Thank you to everyone who entered last week's giveaway for a seat in
Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels!

It was so fun reading everyone’s comments! 

Drum roll please…

And the winner is…

Congratulations to Bernice Hopper! 

If you didn't win, you still have time to register for the Early Bird rate! Early Bird Rate ends on May 15th.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!
Hope you join us in Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels!

This Friday’s featured artist is Jennifer Radil and her wonderfully colorful mixed media on paper works!

Find more of Jennifer Radil's extraordinary art on her website at www.jenniferradilstudio.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/jenniferradilstudio, and Instagram at www.instagram.com/jennifer.radil.studio!
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​Have a great weekend!

I am so excited to be part of
​Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels
and have ONE SEAT to GIVE AWAY
​to a lucky winner!

Let's get rebelious!
​Simply enter through Rafflecopter below! Good luck!

The giveaway will run for one week; through midnight CST May 13th.
I'll announce the winner on Sunday, May 14th!

CLICK HERE for more information about Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels!
I hope you join us for the color FUN!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!

This Friday's featured artist is Kip Perdue of Kartegraphik and his intricately hand-cut maps!
​They truly are a labor of love!

When asked why maps, he writes;

The circulatory system of any city is its roads. North American cities tend towards a new growth approach: scaffolded along broad, quadrilateral corridors. European and Asian cities are an older variety of animal, gnarled, inconsistent, and quixotic. When drawing a map the edges of a city are often the most difficult—where land and road merge alongside water. Certain functions of paper cutting and maps plague me when making a design. How do I best represent what's on the ground through paper? Positive or negative space? color or no color?
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Each city reflects the history of its people. London is like tiny cobwebs strung along large tributaries; little circuses all connected through radii. In New York City, Roosevelt Island seems temporarily docked in the east river; its bridges giant gangplanks onto the shore. While in Antwerp, you can sense its former glory as an economic power-house, grand and robust, yet without a single bridge across the Scheldt. People, the past and present are all bound up in a city's roads and topography.

Learn more about Kip Perdue and Kartegraphik on his website at www.kartegraphik.com!
Have a great weekend!

And, to top it off, we will have virtual sessions that you can attend live online
and be in conversation with the teachers and other students.
​It’s going to be a blast! I sure hope to see you there! CLICK HERE to join us!

​Thanks!